Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 29, 2012

Daily aggregation of cloud news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.

  • VMware taps China’s 5-year economic plan
  • ZDNet SAN FRANCISCO–China’s economic plans to develop the IT capabilities of its domestic companies and become a leader in cloud computing have provided VMware massive opportunities to grow. In an interview with ZDNet Asia here Tuesday at the vendor’s … (more)

  • Reaching The Cloud With Networking
  • Business 2 Community Cloud computing, Reaching the cloud with networking Cloud computing offers many potential benefits for your organization: flexibility, reduced costs, increased efficiency and productivity, just to name a few. Whether you’re a seasoned cloud-computing … (more)

  • AppFog Acquires Nodester As Platform As A Service Market Shows …
  • AppFog has acquired Nodester the most recognized platform as a servicePaaS for the fast growing Nodejs community The move is one of the first signs of … (more)

  • VMware looks to drive software-defined datacenter with new vCloud Suite 5.1
  • eChannelLine SAN FRANCISCO — Cloud infrastructure — one of the three elements VMware sees as the keys to the datacenter of the future, dominated the first day at VMworld 2012. While several cloud infrastructure and management products were announced, the core … (more)

  • Multi-tenancy and azure media accounts
  • Windows Azure Media Services http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ MediaServices/thread/5f5e8fe3-07a8-47bc-89e0-500ee55630fd Question 4 … (more)

  • VMware Unveils Tools for Software-Defined Data Center
  • Data Center Knowledge VMware’s VMWorld 2012 conference opened Monday with OpenStack news, a dual-CEO keynote and a number of new solution updates to the software-defined data center. As the company transitions from CEO Paul Maritz to incoming chief executive Pat … (more)

  • HP Expands Converged Cloud Portfolio with Optimized Solutions for VMware …
  • The FINANCIAL The FINANCIAL — HP announced it is expanding its HP Converged Cloud portfolio with new solutions for VMware vCloud Suite 5.1, enabling clients to transform traditional virtualization deployments into open private and hybrid cloud environments with … (more)

  • Cloud Computing And Tools Needed To Accelerate The Business
  • CloudTweaks News There has been lots and lots of news about cloud computing lately. Some people think it is a really big deal, while others have been warning us that it’s just a bunch of hype. We definitely take the first position. Cloud computing is a major step … (more)

  • SUSE jumps into OpenStack with its own distribution
  • Network World Openstack is the open source cloud deployment model that in the two years since its founding has gained considerable attention from some of the biggest tech players in the industry. Companies like Rackspace, through its private cloud, already offer a … (more)

  • SingTel, Progress Software launch PaaS to target ISVs
  • ZDNet SINGAPORE–Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) and Progress Software have collaborated to launch a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering, which they say will provide “easy entry” for independent software vendors (ISVs) in Asia and beyond to … (more)

  • IO Announces Data Center as a Service and IO.OS Contract with Simplicity
  • Web … Sacramento Bee Anywhere modular data center platform is managed and optimized by the first secure data center operating system, IO.OS, which transforms the data center into an enterprise IT appliance to maximize resiliency, efficiency and utilization. Organizations … (more)

  • Frost & Sullivan Applauds AirWatch’s Comprehensive Customer-Focused MDM …
  • Sacramento Bee Frost & Sullivan Applauds AirWatch’s Comprehensive Customer-Focused MDM Platform. The company offers … AirWatch offers the industry’s most scalable and flexible deployment options with Software as a Service (SaaS), appliance or on-premise solutions. (more)

  • MediaSilo Appoints Joe Foxton as Vice President of Business Development
  • Broadcast Newsroom The company does Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) right, which is hard to find in today’s media technology market.” A software designer and … Foxton will be showcasing this latest MediaSilo platform upgrade at the upcoming IBC2012 show, held Sept. 7-11 … (more)

  • SUSE Launches OpenStack Cloud Platform
  • InformationWeek SUSE added a new face to its infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) portfolio with the August 29 unveiling of SUSE Cloud at the OpenCloud 2012 conference. An OpenStack-based automated cloud computing platform, SUSE Cloud promises improved resource … (more)

  • HubSpot’s New Platform Aims for Larger Businesses
  • Marketing Pilgrim Over the past 6 years the company has grown aggressively to now serve over 6,000 customers using their SaaS (software as a service) delivery model to help create and manage marketing activities that help small and medium businesses get the most from … (more)

  • Techmeme AppFog Acquires Nodester As Platform As A Service Market …
  • Danny Brogan Pocketlint Google patents object recognition software for YouTube ….. AppFog Acquires Nodester As Platform As A Service Market Shows Signs Of … (more)

  • HealthStream Signs Exclusive Distribution Agreement with NurseCompetency …
  • The Herald | HeraldOnline.com HealthStream will immediately provide NurseCompetency’s clinical exams and skills checklists for nurses as stand-alone products, while future plans include offering them as an integrated solution through HealthStream’s platform. … Our unified suite … (more)

  • Americans Think Cloud Computing Comes From Actual Clouds
  • WebProNews Cloud computing also shares a distinction with Linux. It’s everywhere, but people seem to think that they never use it. The survey found that 54 percent of respondents claimed to never use the cloud in their everyday lives, but 95 percent actually use … (more)

  • Job Openings at Amazon Web Services Reveal Its Future
  • New York Times (blog) The job, which requires a business and technical background, requires a minimum of 10 years of selling or product management, five years in networking or cloud computing as it pertains to several of our intelligence services, and a Top Secret security … (more)

  • Open source leads the way into the cloud
  • Network World Looking around the cloud computing landscape, it is impossible to not find an explicit example of open source technology in use. In every layer of the cloud, there is open source to be found, from Linux at the operating system level to a panoply of … (more)

  • Salesforce announces Dreamforce 2012, world’s largest enterprise
  • technology … EventsNetwork Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing company, today announced Dreamforce 2012, the world’s largest enterprise technology and cloud computing event ever. In its 10th year, Dreamforce expects to welcome more than 70,000 registered attendees … (more)

  • VMware and Open Stack
  • The Data Center Journal (blog) Software defined data center is becoming a big focus for companies like VMware and OpenStack is, broadly speaking, working towards providing a common framework for the functioning of the software defined data center. VMware has also executed some … (more)

  • HP announces new Converged Cloud optimized solutions for VMware vCloud …
  • eChannelLine HP has announced the expansion of its HP Converged Cloud portfolio with new solutions for VMware vCloud Suite 5.1, and which, unlike some other HP Cloud initiatives, does have significant partner opportunities. “Six months ago, we laid out our Cloud … (more)

  • Software-as-a-Service (SaaS): What makes companies prefer to …
  • Let’s say I’m creating typical enterprise software, which could easily be licensed on a per-server basis as shrink-wrapped software for an enterprise to run … (more)

  • Most Americans Confused By Cloud Computing According to – Citrix
  • Ninety-five percent of those claiming they never use the cloud actually do so via online banking and shopping, social networking, and storing photos and music. (more)

  • Cloud Computing By The Numbers: Understanding The True Cost …
  • With VMworld in full swing this week and Microsoft’s cloud-centered Windows Server 2012 launching soon after, your options for technology to build and deploy … (more)

  • U.S. Intelligence Agencies Seek A Private Cloud OS
  • InformationWeek Adaptive will integrate its Moab cloud management suite with an unspecified open source cloud platform–potentially OpenStack, CloudStack, or another alternative–to create the cloud OS. Adaptive’s Moab Cloud Suite provides service provisioning … (more)

  • VMware joining OpenStack delayed, for now
  • Network World The OpenStack Board of Directors met this week and on the agenda was a somewhat surprising action item: Vote on whether or not to accept VMware – once thought to be a competitor to the project – into the increasingly popular who’s-who club of cloud … (more)

  • VMware’s Mea Culpa ‘Pretty Unusual’
  • Wall Street Journal (blog) VMware announced during its annual customer event this week that it was reversing course on a pricing model that was hugely unpopular with its customers, and that it would join the OpenStack consortium seeking to create common standards for cloud … (more)

  • Slideshow: LinuxCon and CloudOpen Kick Off in San Diego
  • Linux.com (blog) On Tuesday night, conference attendees kicked back at CloudStack’s fabulous rooftop party in downtown San Diego for drinks and socializing. Then LinuxCon and CloudOpen began in full force Wednesday morning with the State of Linux keynote from Linux … (more)

  • International Business Machines: Kenexa Deals Suggests Industry Shift To
  • Saas iStockAnalyst (NYSE:IBM) in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) domain, which is being adopted by many technology companies. Kenexa, which is being acquired for $1.3 billion in cash, or $46 a share, uses … With Kenexa’s world-class front-office process solutions, IBM … (more)

  • Has the Cloud Become Mandatory for Business Computing?
  • Business 2 Community For as much as cloud computing has become part of the technology landscape, there are still a lot of people who either haven’t gotten around to migrating data into the cloud or who have purposely avoided the move. But have we reached a point where … (more)